I argued that the greatest threat to Israel is its lack of a constitution
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I
had a pretty tough time with the Civil Rights course.
First of all, we were required to read Supreme Court opinions. I had no experience with such material, and to put it bluntly, I couldn’t make heads or tails out of it.
Secondly, I found the contrast between a Torah-observant society and the American legal system very jarring.
Take the freedom of speech. Your knee-jerk reaction is that of course free speech is a good thing; as Jews with a history of bloody persecution, all freedom sounds good.
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